Thinking about baby slings.

One sees an increasing number of infants in slings. I am not sure that all of them are ideal. Of course its nice to see the degree of contact they offer but in some the degree of hyper- extension of the infant's neck is marked and especially if he or she is trying to capture the parents eyes or visa versa. This is thus mostly the situation in the ventral or front loading types. The apposition of the infant against the holder's chest is firm if not actually tight and this manifestly means the infant, being face on, will have its neck and head considerably extended. This is likely to be so uncomfortable that eye contact between parent and infant will be brief.
I am impressed too that the parent has to do a ? mark manoeuvre of the head and neck to look in the infant's eyes, not a comfortable manoeuvre to keep up for any length of time.
Lateral slings are mostly great and off the relaxed and reposed infant contained therein easy viewing of mum or dad and some 'lateral outlook at the world at large.
Soul Slings  These provide a marvellous solution in the lateral sling line. They are one size apparently for the new-born through to todler, of natural materials and very reasonable such that they are affordable for the poor.